I've never understood why people think it would be a great idea to have someone's portrait on a cake. If someone put my face on a cake, I would be horrified.And what's up with the candle mustache and goatee?

"What the heck are all the white splatters randomly strewn on this cake?!"

If you look to one side of the cake, it looks like there are several more candles. Also, the candles on the poor guy's picture have icing on the ends, as if they'd been in the cake before being used for a mustache and goatee. I think the white spots were where there used to be candles before they were removed, leaving spots of broken icing. Well, mostly. The ones on the guy's face could be where the top layer of icing came off, somehow.

So I'm reading these at 3am and my dreams are always heavily influenced by the last things on my mind before I go to sleep. So I'm now fully expecting at least one dream to play out like a Bud commercial.....it's gonna happen.

Yes, it definitely looks like the cake-receivers removed the candles from around the man's face and created candle facial hair before photographing the masterpiece. They couldn't resist adding more silliness to the already crazy cake. I was also so mesmerized by the candle facial hair that I didn't notice the 2-4 at first. Thanks for pointing that out.

Gee, thank you. Me and my co-worker were spending a perfectly productive Friday afternoon, until we stumbled upon this. It caused uncontrollable laughter, causing our boss to come see what's so funny. We quickly changed our browsers to display documentation, source code and such. Now he thinks we've gone mad, seeing us laugh while the work content was on our screens.

This is my favorite of all cakes posted. I have spent about two hours on this site, smiling, rolling my eyes, until I saw this one. The candles for the mustache and goatee did me in. I needed this laugh, and this cake delivered!

This guy on the cake looks like "The Rock"...as Blackbeard the Pirate (you know, the lit candles for beard instead of lit slow matches IN the beard...it sort of works). On the other hand, maybe I'm just up way too late. Love this site. I'm also glad that no matter how bad my cakes are, they'll probably never land on here because I'm not a pro baker (whew!).

I've seen the movie, it was great. I remember the whole movie like it was last week. I do remember the laser/behind-the-screen SFX sequences like it was yesterday.

I wished they'd at least release a colorkey/shutterframe 3D-enabled DVD for the MJ collector, if there are still any left. Me? I'm into the technology section.

This movie had plenty of tech behind it. I also remember the first release contract had expired, and they replaced it with something like "Honey, I shrunk the audience!" and it was so lame they had to bring back Captain EO, and it stayed there until the first MJ molestation lawsuit came about. The movie was officially cancelled from further showings and was replaced with an early test movie which was also weak.

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A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

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